Aaron McKinney

Some viewers might approach the documentary "Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine" with a bit of trepidation. Those of us who recall the tragedy from 1998 will wonder if the film merely recounts a story we already know.

The case of Shepard, the 21-year-old Wyoming student who was beaten, tied to a fence and left to die, received the kind of national attention that eluded other lesbian, gay or transgender hate-crime victims such as Brandon Teena and Sakia Gunn. Sixteen years after his death, at a time when gay-rights activists are making progress nationally on issues such as same-sex marriage, why revisit Shepard?

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